Supporting case studies
Supporting guidance
Supporting tools
Example plans and policies

Look beyond the lifetime of your plan by understanding your climate risks

Keep your future adaptation options open by developing an understanding of changing climate risks over the long-term (100+ years) and incorporating this knowledge into the spatial planning process. Remember to address how adaptation of existing land-use in vulnerable locations can be managed in the longer-term.

• European level: Encourage member states to develop ‘route maps’ for addressing climate risks through the next 100 years.

• National level: Develop an understanding of climate risks over the long-term and incorporate this knowledge into the national spatial planning process.

• Regional level: Encourage the development and land management sectors to adapt to long-term climate risks, inviting them to come up with innovative solutions.

• Local level: Remember to take account of long-term climate impacts in development control decisions.

 

Supporting case studies:

• Sustainability Appraisal of the draft South East Plan
• The ESPACE project

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Supporting guidance:

• Three Regions Climate Change Group's "Adapting to climate change" series of guidance documents:
  1. A checklist for development (2005)
  2. A good practice guide for sustainable communities (2006)
  3. A case study companion to the checklist (2007)
• Outline strategic vulnerability analysis

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Supporting tools:

• Interactive CD - supports comparison of Transnational Approaches
• FloodRanger
• Decision Testing Tool
• Decision Pipelines Tool

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Example plans and policies:

• PKB Room for Rivers (national spatial river planning process for a region)
• Manhood Peninsula Adaptation Action Plan

 

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